We’re sitting at the airport bar in Lansing, Michigan when we notice a MAGA hat next to the cash register. “What’s that?” my husband asks the black bartender. The bartender curls up the corners of his mouth and says, “I’m a Trump supporter.”

He tells us that he was raised to be a Democrat by his grandmother and his mother but found himself disillusioned with the Obama administration and the bailouts of Wall Street and the auto industry.